8.02/10

Familiar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmbDKbYHi4U

7.6/10 Kinda nice, the singing is quite pleasant.

7.79/10

Interesting. It feels like it should be like almost any other song but something about it, perhaps it's atmosphere, or specific/subtle parts in the progression/instrumentation that makes it actually kinda cool. 3:39 is a good part of the song. From that it's generally okay, just mixed feelings on a couple aspects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKFK-rqF4o

6./10 Just decent

7.56/10

Pretty good. Somewhat calming. A nice transition later on in the song definitely made it better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qb1Lxm4y5k

7.8/10 Good atmosphere, I like how it ends.

7.15/10

It's decent, not sure how i feel about listening to it again but it's alright for what it's going for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEr7Tp7rQZI

6.7/10 It's pleasant but I don't think I'd listen to this by choice.

9.12/10

wHOAH this is a lot to digest, 14 minutes long...

That distorted thing in the background throughout the intro and stuff, that was really cool. The vocals are amazing. 3:15 is just a slam in my face that I'd be fine with being a masochist for. That's a nice bit of contrast, the power and drive is great, the mood is pretty hauntingly addictive. 6:47 onwards is a nice change-up, 7:25 is an AMAZING part to the song, probably my 2nd favorite part of it. Again, vocals are good in 8:42. Another great transition to 9:49, with a pretty good part with more drive and power. 11:02 onwards is enhanced by the vocals and now it's just amazing. That's my favorite part. From there on, just... yes. The outro is quality.

wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq6K6yTqaZQ

6.8/10, the noises sound hella tasty and snappy, I don't hear much of value beside that.

Whoa, really glad you think as much of it as I do! Thanks for putting up with long songs too, I know you said you liked them, so I think thats really cool to be able to share without thinking too much of the length, but that being said, how long would be too long for you? I have a really good song I wanted to share for a while but its 20 minutes and I don't want to expect someone to listen to something that long.

7.31/10

It's alright, it works well with it's direction, I think I like it a little but right now my judgment is slightly clouded by my drowsiness.

Oof, yet again I fall asleep by accident. I at least got a few more hours of sleep in, so I guess that's fine.

20 minutes is pretty long. 30 minutes would probably be the absolute most i could handle in one sitting. I'm willing to take on 20 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB8Oa_j1Tzg

8.8/10, I dig this big time, everything works together so well, I have no criticisms. I love the part starting at 2:15, relaxing as heck. Good stuff.


glhf

9.06/10

Oh boy, here we go. The test of endurance begins. It's going to be hard to be critical on everything here due to length so I'll shorten it up if I can and base it off my experience. (edit: welp, i became technical anyways. that's fine i guess!)

Also, when you said it was a good song... Holy shit, it is indeed, a great song.

tl;dr for anyone who isn't ready to handle chunks of text: I enjoyed all of it.

Phase 1: So, it has a good intro. Everything is good. It has really good progression and each part is really nice to listen to, actually. At this point I already know I enjoy it this much because of your posts, which have made me even more accepting of even more genres like this. Anyhow, it all works well, and then it calms down at 3:15. Ambience. it sounds great. Little cute sounds come up. An underlining rhythm comes in, with the foreboding qualities I love. And then--

Phase 2: It gets serious at 4:25. This buildup is satisfying. It remains consistent in the quality of its sound. An arp arises, with a nice melody within what seems like a break at 5:46. Vocals approach, they sound rhythmically strange, but they still sound great, and the rhythm gets better. An interesting buildup/bridge comes up. It still all sounds good. This is becoming really satisfying to listen to. More progression through the next couple minutes that are overall just great. And, here, we return to the calmness at 9:48. Sharp vocal clips. Reverb. High attack. Very ambient, and honestly quite nice. The arp eventually comes back in. A nice arpeggiation ensues. The vocals return. They take a break for a while. Back to calm with a bell-like instrument along with some other sounds. Calm, until--

Phase 3: Synths and guitars dominate the airspace at 13:19, leaving the other instruments to the background. I'm hooked to the song by now. The progressions hereon are amazing as usual. A voice in the background makes some phrases but is drowned in the sound. I'm fine with that. Another great transition. Calm at 15:42, once again. Cute sounds, clipped or cut with some reverb. A nice soft bassline to the right. More ambience with more soothing sounds. A nice guitar. Behind me, to the left, a guitar line starts. It sounds good. that surfaces in front of the song and is pretty good. Vocals come in for a little bit. Ambient pads in the background come in for a bit. Vocals return. Everything is nice. The last verses come in, with an amazing mood. High dynamic momentum here. Chanting surfaces and ensues. The song is finally over.

hOLY fucK that was an experience. Thanks for that, even though it did take a long time to digest, I appreciate this song. It's really good (welp, looks like I've been writing this for about 35 minutes or so).

I dont even have anything to top that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcHAscBcR-4

6/10 It's aight for what it is, I just don't think that much to it for some reason.

Ay, that's awesome to hear what you think about it.
Can't remember if I posted this in the thread before, I know I've definitely posted another song by TC before though.

8.16//10

Yeah, this song is really familiar, I think you sent this song on this thread before. It's pretty good.

it's 4:58 AM PST right now as of writing this. I'm pretty lucky I caught this when i woke up, i was about ready to fall back asleep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KIHZYGgd3Y

7.6/10 pretty little thing, those strings are heavenly at 1:05. Lame how it started to get engaging right before it finished though, should be longer.

Ah, sorry, there has been so many songs lately I can't keep track ;v;.



- Live CCTV footage of Achromalia at his PC -

8.86/10

Whoah, this is really nice. I like the piano, the strings are a good addition too. It picks up after a bit and it's good through all the progressions 'n' stuff over the next few minutes. The little break at 5:19 was pretty nice. The buildup from there is really amazing, it just keeps going and going, until the beautiful section at 7:59. The outro sections were great as well. Beautiful.

I love that cover art. Dogs are cool .w.

Rook wrote:

Ah, sorry, there has been so many songs lately I can't keep track ;v;.

It's alright! I'm starting to feel the same way really, kinda hard to find new stuff I like now that I've been exhausting them so quickly over the past couple of months.

Rook wrote:

- Live CCTV footage of Achromalia at his PC -

That's pretty accurate xD

This next song just... yes. I just found it today and it's pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk0pL4b_stg

8.5/10, Golden stuff, feels really empty but serene at the same time, gorgeous.

It's aight if you want to re-post some older good stuff though, you got me more into different genres in general so I might enjoy them more now than I did back then.



Oh hi doggy

7.96/10

Nice energy. Really enjoying the momentum of this. Cover art of an anger doggo-- "oh hi doggy".

The first song of mine you reviewed. "5/10, it's okay, but I wouldn't listen to again". Not sure what you'll think of it now, but let's try it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhDZ6Y1KPGM

5.5/10 Still don't think I'm liking this so much. I think its stuck between being relaxing and energetic, likely on purpose, but with everything going on I'm just unattracted by how the noises sound together. Think its okay for 1:57-3:12 and 4:29 onwards though, I like those parts.

7.39/10

Whoah, not even a soft introduction, just straight into the action. I've got mixed feelings about that, but i think i kinda like it as an intro. Interesting. I would say that it has a little too much power for it to really work out well, personally. It's hard not to think of it as overpowering. It's still really great in it's progressions. Back to the power by 6:04, and this time it feels a little more fitting. From there on, smooth sailing with a nice big section with a great release say the end.

Rook wrote:

5.5/10 Still don't think I'm liking this so much. I think its stuck between being relaxing and energetic, likely on purpose, but with everything going on I'm just unattracted by how the noises sound together. Think its okay for 1:57-3:12 and 4:29 onwards though, I like those parts.

Hmm. I suppose that's fair enough. It had the opposite effect on me, I really liked how it sounded as it seemed interesting and crunchy to me.

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Here's one I think I've posted here a few months ago, the one breakcore song I've considered to be the candidate of being my all-time favorite breakcore track. It'd be interesting to see what you'd think of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_vQab52wTw

8.5/10, I can definitely see why you think so much to it! I dig how the more aggressive sections mix into the more serene parts, thats what really sells it for me. My favourite part is the lead in from 2:00 into 2:17, that's nothing short of epic, I also love how it goes calm again in 3:15 and then its just gorgeous at 3:43.

8.26/10

Definitely a nice experience. Something good to sleep to. The progressions are pretty interesting. Overall I like it, it's pretty good. Also, that-- whoah. Just. The outro. Fuck. That's a good outro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlZgwWjb2Lg

7.2/10, boopable.

Rook wrote:

7.2/10, boopable.

9.5/10

i like it. (how long have you and Achromalia been rating each others music?)


relaxing song.

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/592012

6.8/10 Pretty fresh wubwubs, I can get into this. I like the intro.

A month and a half sounds about right, I haven't been here very long but the thread went pretty quiet around that time.

7.9/10, pretty gud imo. There were some times in the beginning that I was reminded of Lincoln Park for some reason. Intro and ending were very nice.

https://youtu.be/I9k05l8W7xI

7.63/10.

Oh hey, it's Biosphere. Haven't listened to the recent stuff in a while. Comfortable, as usual, but nothing exactly remarkable, it's just nice to listen to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYGTf6a90wo

8/10 Just really nice sounds in this, engaging.

7.64/10.

Nothing much to say about it, it's pretty good. I guess it's less diverse in its direction, and it kinda just does the same thing, but there are subtle things that make it somewhat different and engaging. It's alright, quite soothing actually, but hard to listen to consciously as it just makes me feel... rather absent-minded. Not sure how to explain it better.

Oof I'm lucky I caught this in time. I'm about to sleep right now, staying up the whole night is just not working out for me. time zones are really irritating to work around sometimes ;w;

It's 1:39 AM as of now in the midst of writing this post. I should be back up in 6 or 7 hours at the latest if I can manage to fall asleep.

(edit: 2 hours later, I still haven't fallen asleep. checked my emails, starting to feel nostalgic again, im making an attempt to talk to an old friend of mine but no response since about two and a half months ago.)

One of my favorite longer tracks, this is the multi-genre experience "Empty Egg":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA-2SWnG9Ks

8.9/10 I'm 99.9% sure you've posted this in this or that, I still really like it. 1:58 the drunk sleazy sounds are just 10/10 material, 3:45 is incredible. I like the first 7 minutes more than the end by far though, but I appreciate all these shifts because they're all so good to listen to.

You should catch some Zs dude D:. Unfortunate to hear you can't contact your friend, I do hope you get hold of them though and that they're well.

7.89/10

Whoah, kinda cool. I think I like it. It has an interesting direction and does what it can with it. Nothing amazing, but it's definitely... familiar, actually. It has the sort of chord of progression that can be predictable at times, but it manages to work well. Nice overall.

I'm a dumb

I forgot to sleep

oof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYrQC-jWMFM

4.2/10. If it's from drukqs and it aint got a piano, it's automatically a baddo.
Literally fite me irl for this, Bakamalia >:I, Aphex Twin hurts my precious ears.

Oof, remember to remember next time :thumbsup:

I'M a dumb

Rook wrote:

If it's from drukqs and it aint got a piano, it's automatically a baddo.
Literally fite me irl for this, Bakamalia >:I, Aphex Twin hurts my precious ears.

bIG OoF

mah heart, i liked it though, aphex twin is kinda cool >~<

i will lose an irl fight so even bigger oof

that's alright xD

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7.86/10

Pretty nice. Has some good progression, and the white-noisy distorted atmospheric thing is really cool.

nyehhhhhh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSX_msbXbCc

8.8/10 Clean and refreshing, vocals really stick out to me and the guitar fits in so well, perfect length too, not too long but long enough to really immerse you. Awesome vibes.

Lol, that's cool! I don't like most of the sounds he uses, really, they often sound coarse and far too noisy for me, they also lack direction imo. At least when his songs start to use a piano or something similar, it lightens it up and I can dig it then.
I dunno mang, the last time I even mimicked throwing a punch I sprained my wrist o ^ q.

8.79/10.

Hmm. For songs meant to be experienced, 8 to 12 minutes is my golden range of length. This is right in the middle. Speaking of it being meant to be experienced, this is quite the song for lovely progressions. I enjoy the fuzzy atmosphere to it. Growls themselves are yet again may not be my thing, but when they fit the atmosphere like this, they're great. A nice little acoustic guitar in the middle is refreshing to hear, amongst the other well-fitting instruments. Then the lovely progression from 6:55 into 7:12. Wow. from 7:12 onwards, it's just... pleasing to hear for some reason. The growls kinda take away the atmosphere and it starts be a little funny after a while, but overall it was executed REALLY well. Nice outro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzAAMIUdJlo

Whoa 9.6/10!
Shit I'm really going to have to listen to this artist cus this is just so beautiful in most every way. I already loved from the start then 2:13 really layers it up, adds some great texture, sounds heavenly and delicate.

7.51/10

Ooh, sounds like a little bit of folk in there. Well, this started off pretty well with the intro. The vocals are pretty decent, and I like how it fits with the song's atmosphere with the reverb. Nice guitar and piano at the end. Overall, not bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bTfWuJc360

8/10

Very smooth, good for walking sessions and relaxing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBQj6wvLSAk

8.93/10

Oh hey, you know of Arcaea too?

HOLY FUCK.

Well, it's a good mix of concepts, and it's pretty cool to see Breakcore and Artcore are involved. Though it gets points for executing the individual concepts well and sounding stylish, It lacks the depth I typically seek in the mood of songs. Even then, it doesn't sound any less great. It's a bit shorter than what I'd like for something of this nature, and I feel like with the complexity of its arrangement, there's a lot more that could be done.

This was the first song I found when I discovered Arcaea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRnrKsuV-Uo